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E M I EXPLOR RESOURCES INC. CAN ADA SPRING 2011 Going for Gold Explor Resources continues to hit milestones in its exploration of Canada’s Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The Abitibi Greenstone Belt is embedded with large. gold and copper-zinc ore deposits, Explor says.. kilometers in width embedded with large gold and copper-zinc ore deposits. “If you’re going to look for elephants, you have to go to elephant country,” Dupont says. “In the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, there are some pretty high profile mines that have been discovered.” The Hollinger (20 million ounces), the McIntyre (10 million ounces) and the Dome (13 billion ounces), to name a few. Elephant country lay beneath Timmins, Ontario, a city of 50,000 residents that exemplifies the motto, “The City with a Heart of Gold.” Explored since 1927, the Timmins Porcupine West (TPW) Gold property is specifically located in Bristol and Ogden townships in “I moved the company from Western Canada to the Eastern Canada Abitibi Greenstone Belt because there is potential for major discovery and better opportunity for our shareholders,” // CHRIS DUPONT, president and director [ BY JAMIE MORGAN ] When Chris Dupont took over as president and director of Explor Resources five years ago, he implemented a bold change to bring the previously fairly stagnant operation into an opporPROFILE tunity to strike gold. Dupont moved the junior gold and base metals exploration firm from Western to Eastern Canada, and settled in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt (AGB), a mineralized zone more than 800 kilometers in length and 300 Explor Resources Inc.. www.explorresources.com | Revenues: $10 million | Headquarters: Rouyn Noranda, Quebec | Specialty: Gold and base metal exploration | Employees at peak: 40 the Porcupine Mining Division within the District of Cochrane. Explor’s TPW project includes 3,000 hectares of ground, of which the company completed 30,000 meters of diamond drilling in October 2010. Though it explores land in Quebec, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick and has another 22,000 hectares in the AGB, currently, TPW is Explor’s focus. “With TPW being the flagship property, a significant portion of our capital is spent there,” Dupont says. “About 75 percent of our resources are spent on that property.” Using the Hollinger McIntyre Gold Model, Explor has determined that it 78 emi-magazine.com http://www.emi-magazine.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Energy & Mining International - Spring 2011

Energy & Mining International - Spring 2011
Contents
Clean Fuel
Satellites Are Key
Good Vibrations
News
Latin America Focus
Minera Andres
Ventana Gold Corp.
Zincore Metals
AQM Copper Inc.
Canada Focus
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
Fladgate Exploration Consulting Corp.
Aurizon Mines
JV Driver
Alderon Resource Corp.
Detour Gold Corp.
Prairie Machine & Parts
Pumps & Pressure Inc.
Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp.
Explor Resources Inc.
Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc.
Advantage Valve Maintenance Ltd.
Silverman Oilfield Services
Rhino Resource Partners LP – Hopedale Mining LLC
Kimble Cos. Inc.
McVay Drilling Co.
MaXfield Inc.
Ellicott Dredges
Scientific Drilling
Becker/SMC Corp.
GasSearch Drilling Services
Crossrock Inc.
Frontier Services Inc.
Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc.
Summit Midstream Partners
Black Hills Bentonite LLC
Energy Companies
The Final Shot

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